Observing Ghana’s food system transformation through an assessment of processed food retail in four major cities
This paper describes key features of processed food retail within the context of food system transformation in Ghana—the spread of supermarkets, the sources of processed food products, and the use of traditional and modern retail outlets as marketing channels. The data come from retail inventories o...
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| author | Andam, Kwaw S. Tschirley, David Asante, Seth Al-Hassan, Ramatu M. Diao, Xinshen |
| author_browse | Al-Hassan, Ramatu M. Andam, Kwaw S. Asante, Seth Diao, Xinshen Tschirley, David |
| author_facet | Andam, Kwaw S. Tschirley, David Asante, Seth Al-Hassan, Ramatu M. Diao, Xinshen |
| author_sort | Andam, Kwaw S. |
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| description | This paper describes key features of processed food retail within the context of food system transformation in Ghana—the spread of supermarkets, the sources of processed food products, and the use of traditional and modern retail outlets as marketing channels. The data come from retail inventories of packaged products— poultry meat and eggs, processed tomatoes, and milled grains, roots, and tubers— in four major cities. We find that the interplay of urbanization, imports, and domestic processing and packaging has led to some surprising outcomes. Imports are dominant, as expected, especially for products such as milled rice and tomato paste. Yet, remarkably, import shares are lower (63 percent) in Accra, the principal city, compared to more than 70 percent in three smaller cities, and imported products have higher shares in traditional retail outlets than in modern retail outlets. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1480722025-03-03T20:10:32Z Observing Ghana’s food system transformation through an assessment of processed food retail in four major cities Andam, Kwaw S. Tschirley, David Asante, Seth Al-Hassan, Ramatu M. Diao, Xinshen imports foods packaging urbanization processed foods foreign trade supermarkets food processing food systems This paper describes key features of processed food retail within the context of food system transformation in Ghana—the spread of supermarkets, the sources of processed food products, and the use of traditional and modern retail outlets as marketing channels. The data come from retail inventories of packaged products— poultry meat and eggs, processed tomatoes, and milled grains, roots, and tubers— in four major cities. We find that the interplay of urbanization, imports, and domestic processing and packaging has led to some surprising outcomes. Imports are dominant, as expected, especially for products such as milled rice and tomato paste. Yet, remarkably, import shares are lower (63 percent) in Accra, the principal city, compared to more than 70 percent in three smaller cities, and imported products have higher shares in traditional retail outlets than in modern retail outlets. 2017 2024-06-21T09:23:46Z 2024-06-21T09:23:46Z Conference Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/148072 en Andam, Kwaw S.; Tschirley, David; Asante, Seth; Al-Hassan, Ramatu M.; and Diao, Xinshen. 2017. Observing Ghana’s food system transformation through an assessment of processed food retail in four major cities. Presented at CSAE Conference 2017: Economic Development in Africa. St Catherine's College, Oxford, March 19-21, 2017. https://editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/conference/download.cgi?db_name=CSAE2017&paper_id=888 |
| spellingShingle | imports foods packaging urbanization processed foods foreign trade supermarkets food processing food systems Andam, Kwaw S. Tschirley, David Asante, Seth Al-Hassan, Ramatu M. Diao, Xinshen Observing Ghana’s food system transformation through an assessment of processed food retail in four major cities |
| title | Observing Ghana’s food system transformation through an assessment of processed food retail in four major cities |
| title_full | Observing Ghana’s food system transformation through an assessment of processed food retail in four major cities |
| title_fullStr | Observing Ghana’s food system transformation through an assessment of processed food retail in four major cities |
| title_full_unstemmed | Observing Ghana’s food system transformation through an assessment of processed food retail in four major cities |
| title_short | Observing Ghana’s food system transformation through an assessment of processed food retail in four major cities |
| title_sort | observing ghana s food system transformation through an assessment of processed food retail in four major cities |
| topic | imports foods packaging urbanization processed foods foreign trade supermarkets food processing food systems |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/148072 |
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